Forces May Target PKK Fighters Across the Border

Every day, more Turkish tanks are deployed along the border with Syria. With tensions on the rise between the Turkish government and the Syrian government, there are constant discussions of a Turkish invasion, insinuating them directly in the ongoing Syrian Civil War.

Diplomats, however, say that the deployment isn’t nearly what it seems, and that while some of the tanks may launch attacks across the border, the target isn’t the Assad government but rather ethnic Kurds in the region.

Several Kurdish factions are preparing for the possibility of war, and with PKK violence in southeastern Turkey on the rise the Turkish government sees more and more safe havens set up inside Syrian and Iraqi Kurdistan.

Many see Turkey’s endorsement of the Syrian rebellion as part of their Kurdistan strategy, figuring that the Arab Sunni nationalist rebels would be more eager to tamp down Kurdish secessionist ambitions than the Assad regime is.

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And what makes anyone think that escalating Turkey's fight against the Kurds in Syria's territory isn't going to escalate the overall conflict? It's doing so in Iraq.

No, those tanks are there to threaten Syria and to provoke Syria and to participate in whatever flareup the Turks can engineer on orders from the US and NATO in order to draw NATO and the US into attacking Syria.